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Retired Climber

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  1. Retired Climber
    You are right there. It's got to the point at which it's a pain to try to buy anything with good old fashioned money because the main dealers don't want to sell anything that's not on finance.
  2. Retired Climber
    How on earth can you know that? Not everyone with a decent car needs finance.
  3. Retired Climber
    It's just drt. Doesn't it stand for moving rope system or something?
  4. Retired Climber
    I'd always turn it down. It's done my way or not at all. If a client didn't respect my opinion enough to listen to it, they can be someone else's client.
  5. Retired Climber
    Well that just about sums up this forum doesn't it. I asked a perfectly reasonable question related to what was being discussed at the time, and was told to answer would derail the thread. Then people see an opportunity to have a dig at someone and suddenly it's back to 'no holds barred'.
  6. Retired Climber
    The entire bloody thread is off topic; actually half the forum is off topic. Nah, I was just wondering as I read through the thread, I'm not that bothered.
  7. Retired Climber
    I think I may regret asking this, but is a ported saw not actually ported in the traditional sense? Those of us who wasted our youth messing about with cars would think of porting in terms of a 'flowed and ported' or 'ported and polished' head. Is that not the case with a 'ported' saw?
  8. Retired Climber
    Take a photo straight towards the machine, not at an angle.
  9. Retired Climber
    If you feel that way often, your marketing strategy needs work.
  10. Retired Climber
    As a rough guide, if you are an individual you get some consumer protection. A contract contrary to your statutory rights won't stand up. If you are signing on behalf of a ltd co (a separate legal entity in its own right) caveat emptor applies. The waters are slightly less clear around sole traders as they are essentially individuals purchasing for business purposes. As stated above, we'd need to see the contract. Edit. It would also be useful to know how it was paid for. There are certain protections that come with using a credit card for example (above and beyond the ones people tend to know about).
  11. Retired Climber
    It gets complicated with businesses. Technically, if you are buying it as a business, you aren't a consumer so consumer rights don't apply (although some times they do). We'd need to see the contract to know if it would stand up.
  12. Retired Climber
    I'm 43. How old are you?
  13. Retired Climber
    That's what climbing ropes are for; you make a little nest for your saws to sit in. 😉
  14. Retired Climber
    😆 The guy was fatally injured in the groin. I'm thinking he didn't quite understand the basic principles of cock fighting.😆
  15. Retired Climber
    I'm new here; do you throw your toys out of the pram every time someone disagrees with you? Just wondering if it's worth explaining what i posted in more detail, or if you are going to act like a child whatever I say?
  16. Retired Climber
    Even a monkey will write something that makes sense if you let them bang away at the keys for long enough.
  17. Retired Climber
    You need bypass loppers, not anvil ones.
  18. Retired Climber
    Surely too much oil is as bad as too little as then you are burning too lean a mixture?
  19. Retired Climber
    Completely agree. If it will take a cut without churning it up, get it done. For all we know it could rain for a month at any time and then it will be a jungle when we do our first cut.
  20. Retired Climber
    Whilst it may work for you, it's not good business advice. You are simply engineering disadvantages into your business.
  21. Retired Climber
    Take photos before you mill it (or take it down). I've never seen one anything like that size.
  22. Retired Climber
    I'd use back handled ms201 for that.
  23. Retired Climber
    So you did; ignore me. As you were.
  24. Retired Climber
    I suppose my point really is that you shouldn't worry what the current going rate is, but that makes the whole thread a bit pointless doesn't it.
  25. Retired Climber
    You need to stop thinking of our services as a commodity; that's just a race to the bottom. Think of yourself as a luxury that people look forward to spending money on and build a business around that assumption.

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